Odds and Ends- Other Fiction

By mark p

 

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A Good Neighbour?

By mark p on Fri, 09 Jul 2021

It was strange the thoughts that came to you when you when working, thought Gary, as he threw the dirty water down the drain in the back yard. He had...
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

We Blossom and Flourish

By mark p on Tue, 30 Mar 2021

It was during the Pandemic that Gary began to be aware of his mortality. He was 57, not really that old, late middle age possibly, not yet elderly ,...
Story
Certificate U

In a Lonely Place (i.m David Bowie)

By mark p on Thu, 07 Jan 2021

The vistas from the train window were stunning but not in a good way, I looked out at the damage wrought by the recent storm over the fields of...
Story
Certificate U
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Cherry

The Leather Football

By mark p on Fri, 06 Nov 2020

I watched in dismay as my leather football flew over the playground fence, my leather football signed by the whole 1971 Aberdeen football squad -'The...
Story
Certificate U

Dystopia?

By mark p on Wed, 24 Jul 2019

Grant stumbled home from a night out with Alison, one of his oldest friends, they had known each other for almost forty years, and although they had...
Story
Certificate 12

Nothing Compares to You (1990)

By mark p on Tue, 05 Mar 2019

John sat and read the novel, the one he’d been reading for the last two weeks during lunchtime at work.
Story
Certificate 15
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A Visit

By mark p on Sat, 15 Dec 2018

In the weekend, Gary’s family would visit his Gran and Grandad who lived in a council estate on the other side of town Once at Gran’s, he would sit...
Story
Certificate U

Quite Possibly Divine

By mark p on Tue, 20 Nov 2018

Jon looked around the place and wondered why he was here at all. The crowd bustled all around him drunk and drugged to the eyeballs, pushing past as...
Story
Certificate 12

Aberdeen Beach Back in the Day

By mark p on Thu, 05 Nov 2020

I look at the old photograph and picture the scene in my mind's eye, almost 50 years ago, and I can picture it , I am back there, back in the day, in...
Story
Certificate U
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The Interviewee (2045)

By mark p on Tue, 09 Jun 2020

'So, is it switched on? ‘, I ask Angela, the manager of this place. I am having a test of the Skype link beforehand, as I have never been comfortable...
Unclassified
Story
Certificate 12
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Unprecedented

By mark p on Fri, 20 Mar 2020

Alan pulled the blinds back and looked down at the empty street below. Six -ten in the morning and the road outside was traffic free, not even the...
Story
Certificate U
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The Trooper

By mark p on Wed, 06 Jan 2021

It was way back in 1983, when inspired by the hard rock / heavy metal bands I liked and had seen live, I picked up a couple of flyers from my local...
Biography
Story
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I Remember Nothing

By mark p on Fri, 04 Mar 2022

Sunday morning came. At least I think it was morning. It was light anyway. My head hurt, my mouth was dry, and I was sweating like hell. There was...
Story
Certificate 12

Halloween's Coming

By mark p on Mon, 31 Oct 2022

(1972) The grotesque pointed teeth and eye sockets were slowly taking shape as Dad carved carefully at the turnip, scattering pieces of it all over...
Autobiography
Story
Certificate U

The Time Traveller ( Time Tunnel Tale #1)

By mark p on Mon, 10 Jul 2023

Frank Scott shambled down Sauchiehall Street, it was Friday night, and he had been for a few drinks after work, the traditional ‘Friday Pint’ thing...
Science fiction
Story
Certificate U
Cherry

Granite Noir

By mark p on Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Ryan had never been particularly good at solving problems in his life. It was always left to someone else to pick up the pieces after the event, if...
Story
Certificate 12
Cherry

The Veteran Speaks ( Time Tunnel Tale #2)

By mark p on Tue, 12 Mar 2024

I am a seasoned veteran of the office wars, like Mike Moorcock, or was it Nik Turner, used to declaim, on that old Hawkwind album ‘Warrior on the...
Story
Certificate U

A New Bar in Town (Time Tunnel Tale #3)

By mark p on Tue, 12 Mar 2024

The Bar had just opened. It was 1983 and the infectious synth-pop of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ played on the bar’s sound system, and all around the...
Story
Certificate U